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TO ALL WHOM IT MAY CONCERN:

Be it known that I, EZRA G. GONE, of East Hampton, in the county of Middlesex, and State of Connecticut, have invented a new and useful improvement in Bells; and that the following description, taken in connection with the accompanying drawings, hereinafter referred to, forms a full and exact specification of the same, wherein I have set forth the nature and principles of my said improvement, by which my invention may be distinguished from all others of a similar class, together with such parts as I claim, and desire to have secured to me by Letters Patent. i

This invention relates to a new and useful improvement in bells, more especially in small bells designed for doors, and commonly termed jingle-bells. These bells have previously been cast of bell-metal, which is an expensive material.

Cast-iron bells cannot be used, or have n'ot hitherto been used, in consequence of the bells requiring a shank, which is drilled, in order to receive the rod on which the bell is fitted, and these Shanks cannot be drilled if of cast iron, the metal being too hard. The iron of which bells are cast is heated to a very high temperature,

and cools very hard and brittle. Bells thus cast give a very goed Sound or tone, and have a prolonged vbra tion, and are much used for gongs, but, for the reason above stated,have not been used for house orjingle-bells.

My invention consists in having a shank of malleable cast iron or other comparatively soft metal made separately and inserted in the mould in which the bell is cast, the latter being cast around the'shank. In the accompanying sheet of drawings- Figure 1 is a vertical central section of my invention.

Figure 2, a detached side view of the shank.

Similar letters ot` reference indicate like parts.

A represents the body or main portion of the bell, and B the shank thereof. This shank is made separately from the bell, and is of malleable cast iron orother metal which will admit of being drilled. The shank is inserted in the mould in which the body of the bell is cast, and is so placed or adjusted in the mould that the body of the bell may be cast around it, as will he fully understood by referring to fig. l, in which the mould is shown in red.

By this simple means bells of the class specified may be manufactured of cast iron, and will ans-wer equally as good a purpose as those cast of bell-metal, while the cost of manufacture is very much less.

Having thus described my invention, I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent- A cast-iron bell, having its shank B of malleable cast iron er other soft metal capable of being drilled, with the body A ofthe bell cast around it, substantially as herein shown and described.

The above specification of my invention signed by me this 18th day of March, 1867.

EZRA G. GONE.

Witnesses:

A. H. QONKLIN, E. C. BARTON. 

